Altamont Corridor Express trains closed

The Santa Clara County Sheriff's Office and Caltrain TransitPolice are close to allowing Altamont Corridor Express trains to resume afterfinding a suspicious package at the train's rail yard in San Jose thisafternoon, a spokesman said.

The package was found by an ACE employee at about 2:45 p.m. near the tracks of the commuter train's rail yard about a mile south of Caltrain's Tamien Station in San Jose, ACE spokesman Thomas Reeves said.

ACE train officials suspended commuter service to Stockton due tothe investigation, but police have told them the first of four trains toStockton would resume after officers walk through it as a precaution, Reevessaid.

The first train, which was set to depart for Stockton from TamienStation at 3:35 p.m., will resume sometime before 6 p.m., Reeves said.

Police plan to walk through the other three trains before allowingthem to start back, Reeves said.

Authorities have removed the package, he said.

So far, two of ACE's four evening commute trains from San Jose toStockton are late, Reeves said.

The trains, which run only during morning and evening commutetimes, carried about 2,000 people to San Jose and from Stockton this morning,Reeve said.

All Caltrain trains were on time as of 5:35 p.m., Caltrain spokeswoman Christine Dunn said.